[hachkc]

Just got an email earlier about capped NL/PL tables at FTP.

Anyone ever play cap games at home? Like'em, hate'em?

I've played a few times but quite often everyone is "all-in" by the turn or so.

[smoore]

What's the cap? 50BB?

Party used to have a 50BB cap, it sucked from what I understand. Now they do 100, IIRC. 'stars is 100BB. Did you happen to mean "uncapped" instead? If so, UB has a penny game that's uncapped. I've heard stories of high-stakes players all sitting together to blow off steam, $15 PFR and such.

My homegame is technically "capped". .25/.50, min buyin is $5, "max" is $100. I'm the only one who's ever bought in for that much, everyone else sticks to $20 or $40

[hachkc]

When I say capped, its not the buyin that is capped but the amount you bet on a single hand.

Lets say you are playing 1/2 with max 200 buyin. If the cap is 50BB, you can't bet more than $100/player on any given hand and this accumlates all bets (PF+F+T+R <= $100). You can almost think of it as spread limit with a large "spread".

[Sniper2075]

From one example in the e-mail I read the cap for a $1/$2 NL game would be $60. Seems ok to me but I havn't played there in a long time and probably won't be back as Poker stars has been nice to me and I'm loving there HORSE games right now.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I've thought about doing a capped game at some point for my game just to try and control some craziness that tends to break out every once in awhile, but I think it would encounter the same problem as doing PL games live. Too much calcuating of the pot and the bets. Perfect for online though.

Don't the high stakes players put caps on some games in the Big Game? I now they usually play like $3000-$6000 limit or something like that, but if they play a NL game, then there's a $75,000 cap. I assumed that meant that once the pot got to $75,000 there was no more betting and it was treated as an all-in at that point. Anyone know if this is how that works?

[smoore]

OIC. I would imagine you'll find inferior players taking shots they wouldn't normally online.

I wouldn't do it in my home game, too much maf.

[hachkc]

Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff

I've thought about doing a capped game at some point for my game just to try and control some craziness that tends to break out every once in awhile, but I think it would encounter the same problem as doing PL games live. Too much calcuating of the pot and the bets. Perfect for online though.

Actually, in my limited experience with capped games its the same craziness, just smaller pots. Also, people seem a bit looser when they know they can only lose $X on hand versus their whole stack. We were playing $1/$1($100 buyin) PLO8 with a $40 cap and basically everyone in the hand was all-in for $40 by the flop or turn just about every hand. As for the math, we had a dedicated dealer (dealing for tips) so he managed the bet sizes and pot sizes.

Don't the high stakes players put caps on some games in the Big Game? I now they usually play like $3000-$6000 limit or something like that, but if they play a NL game, then there's a $75,000 cap. I assumed that meant that once the pot got to $75,000 there was no more betting and it was treated as an all-in at that point. Anyone know if this is how that works?

I've read about that cap before but I thought it was $X per player per hand as insurance against a bad beat or such. I don't think it has to do with the pot size itself.

[dad604]

Why don't they just call it a spread limit game?

[the_ozmeister]

Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff

I've thought about doing a capped game at some point for my game just to try and control some craziness that tends to break out every once in awhile, but I think it would encounter the same problem as doing PL games live. Too much calcuating of the pot and the bets. Perfect for online though.

Don't the high stakes players put caps on some games in the Big Game? I now they usually play like $3000-$6000 limit or something like that, but if they play a NL game, then there's a $75,000 cap. I assumed that meant that once the pot got to $75,000 there was no more betting and it was treated as an all-in at that point. Anyone know if this is how that works?

The $75 000 cap doesn't apply to the entire pot I don't believe, but to how much one player can commit to a single pot. So a 3-way pot could have up to $225k in it + any none-playing blinds.

[Sniper2075]

Latest I've seen about the big game is its $4,000/$8,000 limit with a cap of $100,000 per player in NL/PL games. not sure if they change the blinds for the NL/PL to say $1,000/$2,000 or not